A photographic challenge for image wizards!

Using your photographic skills can you determine what this image is hiding?

The original (932 pixels wide) can be downloaded from the direct link shown below.

Any method or application can be applied to improve or enhance the view.

When you are satisfied with your work, please post the image in this thread.

Caution: You might be very surprised at what your work may reveal.

The image details will be posted later.



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Image credit: NASA/USGS/Arizona State

reply to post by arianna


It's hiding color.

or

The Chupacabra.

reply to post by arianna


This thread is identical to your other thread except for the fact you have used clever wording and an interesting premise. However, one important question I have is if you still hold the original beliefs on that prior thread which was alien structures on the moon,and if any conflicting views will actually be of any use on a second thread, or are you fishing for like minded individuals which will see what you see.

reply to post by arianna


The Rolling Stones

Death Valley

I see lines from an object that is being "driven"

I did find this thought!!!!! WTF????????

Im not really surprised by anything in this photo. The lines in the photo are much more prominent after my 5 minute edits.


Oh! and it reminds me of this movie from 2009 "Moon"

someone needs to help taht poor woman whos broke down .
My god your wrooyed about waldo udde taht chcik is waring a swimsuit

Originally posted by xxcalbier
someone needs to help taht poor woman whos broke down .
My god your wrooyed about waldo udde taht chcik is waring a swimsuit

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That's a puzzling comment
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The only thing I can see is that the ground in the top right would appear to be higher than that towards the bottom left - as indicated by the direction that boulders appear to have rolled.

As to why they rolled? Well without full context that's difficult to surmise, but I'd guess as the result of some ancient impact (the line may be thousands of years old)

Am I close?

reply to post by Essan


If I remember it's the side of a crater.

reply to post by topherman420


You are right.

This thread is the same thread (by the same author) within three weeks.

The October version of this thread was here.

The moon is impacted by meteors from one pound in mass and up several times a month, and is kept track of by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Originally posted by snewpers

Originally posted by xxcalbier
someone needs to help taht poor woman whos broke down .
My god your wrooyed about waldo udde taht chcik is waring a swimsuit

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That's a puzzling comment

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I'll give it try-- the better puzzle to solve on the page:

Translation:

"Someone needs to help that poor woman whose [car] broke down.
"My God! You're worried about Waldo? Dude! That chick is wearing a swimsuit!"
(probably refers to a "Where's Waldo" picture book, which includes a depiction of a woman in a swimsuit standing beside her car.)

Oh, and as for the other puzzle--

They are trails from boulders which had been expelled from the initial impact and after falling back to the ground rolled due to either an incline or from their horizontal momentum.

Originally posted by arianna
Using your photographic skills can you determine what this image is hiding?

The image is only hiding the background of the thread's page.

If something is hidden on that photo, photographic skills will not be able to make it appear, because if they can, then it's not hidden.

Is it a face? I see a face

I don't know, when I enlarge my view enough I begin to see squares of solid grays, (even though the image is RGB), aligned in a geometric array, like a grid, which is what it is, PIXELS.

"hmmm, rotate the Top image 23.6 degrees. Can you set the overlay to multiply and run a transversal-Schmidt algorithm? Good. Now focus in on sector AZ-4. More...a little more. Rotate. Zoom. Defrag the pixels and skew the RGB co-ordinates. Yea...Now enhance. Enhance again. Enhance dammit!....o.....my.......gawd."



Or better yet...

reply to post by arianna


Lets see using Gimp2 change the brightness and contrast and we get SFA



Just what you would expect to see if you dont over do things or have an over active imagination!

Rocks & craters!

Some interesting posts from members.

Has anyone thought of trying a 'shadow-enhancement' procedure?

I chuckle anytime I see someone using any sort of image-editing software to manipulate images. The *techniques* (I loosely call them this) applied can be used on any image (even an image that is a single color) to drastically change the end result. Using things like shadow-enhancement and sharpening do not *enhance* an image, per se. Instead the software uses complex algorithms to add and detract pixel color definition based upon the user’s choices. Sometimes the software has to *guess* because a pixel that contains a color close to another pixel of a varying color could yield unwanted results based upon the choices made.

In the end, the person manipulating the image see's what they want to see and manipulates the image to further exaggerate the definition of what they believe they see until they can say finally, "Look, I found Waldo!!!".

-saige-